AMHERST, Mass. -- Kevin Quinto fired a 4-over-par round of 74 Thursday to qualify for the Massachusetts Junior Amateur. Quinto finished with three birdies on the back nine at Amherst Golf Club to finish in the top four in the final qualifier for the event, scheduled for July 31-Aug. 2 at the Orchards Golf Club in South Hadley. On Thursday, Quinto, a recent Pittsfield High graduate, got off to a rough start, bogeying the first hole and carding a double bogey on the 375-yard, par-4 second en route to a 5-over 40 at the turn. But he righted the ship with a birdie on the 350-yard, par-4 11th hole, and he recorded two more birdies on par 4 against two bogeys to go 1-under on

PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Berkshire Force 14-and-under softball team this week edged the Greylock Thunder in the state championship tournament in a best-of-three series that featured three one-run games. The Force 14U took Wednesday's game in dramatic fashion, with a 7-6 walk-off victory over Greylock Thunder. The game was tied at six with the Force batting in the bottom of the seventh when Taea Bramer laid down a sacrifice bunt, scoring one run. Greylock scored five runs in the sixth inning, but the Force still managed to pull out the victory. The big inning for Greylock came thanks to a single by Taylor Cornell, a error, a double by Katie Booth, and a

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The final tryout for the Western Massachusetts girls basketball team for this summer's Bay State Games is Sunday, June 25, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at McCann Tech. The team primarily is for girls entering grades 9 through 12, though recent graduates are welcome. Each team is allowed up to three 2017 grads. Players must be a full-time resident of Massachusetts and a full-time student at a recognized academic institution. The tryout fee is $38. The 2017 Bay State Games are July 14-16 at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury Crossing. For information, contact Amy Cyr at acyr@hr-k12.org.

DALTON, Mass. -- The Wahconah Regional High School football program this summer will host a Youth FUNdamental Football camp. Coach Gary Campbell Jr., will conduct the camp, scheduled for Monday, Aug. 7, through Thursday, Aug. 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. Campbell's teams have won four out of the last five Western Massachusetts titles and in December 2016 played in the state final at Gillette Stadium for the second time in three years. Players from the Wahconah team will join Campbell to teach fundamental skills, teamwork, self-discipline and how to achieve your potential on and off the field. The coaching staff will instruct each camper in every position, and all

earned all-tournament recognition from the Empire 8 Conference after helping Ithaca win the conference title and a berth in this spring’s NCAA Division III Championships. On May 11, he went 6-⅔ innings on the mound, scattering four hits and one earned run in a tournament win over Elmira. Two days later, he came out of the bullpen to throw two innings of one-hit, shutout relief in the title game against St. John Fisher. He made one appearance in the NCAAs, going 5-⅔ innings in a loss to Oswego. On the season, he had a 4.52 ERA and a 6-2 record in 14 appearances. (Pittsfield) led Division I University at Albany with a .327 batting average this spring,

Three pitchers combined on a 4-3 win Sunday that lifted B.B.A. into first place in the Berkshire Adult Baseball League’s 20-and-over division. Seamus Morrison, Connor Lein and Joe Delsoldato threw for B.B.A. in the win over the North County Knights, who slipped to 0-5-1 this summer. B.B.A. improved to 5-1, pushing it past Lenox and Housatonic, who are tied for second in the seven-team division at 4-2. On Father’s Day, Jesus Lay went 1-for-1 with two walks and scored twice for B.B.A. The Knights got a pair of hits from Joe Boucher. Great Barrington scored four times in the top of the seventh to take an 8-4 lead, but Lenox stormed back

PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Berkshire Force 14-and-under softball team won two games on Sunday to reach the final of its two-day tournament at the Doyle Softball Complex, where the Force dropped a on-run decision to a team from New York's Capital District. In its first game Sunday, an early lead helped the force defeat Greylock Thunder, 5-2. The Force scored on a groundout by Jordyn Lummus in the first inning and a error in the second inning. Sophia-Marie Groves earned the win, throwing six innings and allowing two runs and three hits while striking out four and walking one. The Force collected 13 hits in the win. Kirsten Carrigan, Addison Lyon, and Jordyn

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Even as the Turners Falls Indians softball team, Grafton Memorial Indians boys lacrosse team and Taconic Braves baseball team vie for state championships on Saturday, there is a move afoot in Boston to make sure that those teams never take the field again … at least, not with those nicknames. A longtime national discussion about the appropriateness of Native American-themed nicknames and mascots has reverberated this spring in the Bay State, where a bill on Beacon Hill would prohibit "the use of any Native American mascot by a public school in the Commonwealth." The Pittsfield School Committee is considering taking action at the local

The Pittsfield Heat 16-and-under AAU basketball team has won two tournaments recently, taking home first place in the Mass Hoops Jaguars Spring Classic June 5 in Amherst against teams from Boston, Springfield, and Southern Connecticut, and the Adirondack Hoops Spring Classic in Albany against teams from Albany, Schenectady, Boston and the Hudson Valley. This brings the team’s spring record to 15-4 with three first place finishes, one second and one third in five tournaments. The team includes Gage Williams, Javi Osorio, Nick ‘Truck’ Sayers, Odin Williams, Amin Purry, Sam Higuera, Collin Frinks, Quincy Davi, Josh Tayi, Dylan Thompson and Robert McCowan. It is

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. -- The North Adams SteepleCats will meet fans and sign autographs at the Baseball in the Berkshires exhibit at Berkshire Mall on Thursday, June 22, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Baseball in the Berkshires, A County's Common Bond, opened in the spring at what organizers hope will be a permanent location across from American Eagle and Spencer's in the mall. The exhibit is open Fridays from 3 to 9 and Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 6. The exhibit has a sattelite location at the Old Stone Store in Sheffield through July 2.